Horticultural marking device



1366- 1934- F. c. CHOATE HORTICULTURAL MARKING DEVICE Filed April 26,1934 Patented Dec. 18, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HORTICULTURALMARKING DEVICE Fred C. Choate, Greenville, Mich.

Application April 26, 1934, Serial No. 722,497

1 Claim. (01. 40-46) The present invention relates to marking devicesfor horticultural planting and the like; and its object is to provide animproved device of that character stable in construction, readily thrustinto the ground and having means for holding it against horizontalturning movement.

This and any other or more specific objects are attained by, and theinvention finds preferable embodiment in, the device particularlydescribed in the body of this specification and illustrated by theaccompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of my marking device thrust into theground;

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view thereof taken on line 2-2 ofFigure 1; s

Figure 3 is a central vertical sectional view of the upper portion ofthe same taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is an elevational view of the lower portions of the deviceviewed from a position at right.

angles to that shown in Figure 1; and V Figure 5 is a vertical sectionalview (enlarged) of the front plate of the device taken on a verticalplane as line 5-5 of Figure l, and showing a labeling sheet held in thedevice.

The marking device illustrated by the drawing comprises a pair of plates1, 2 desirably of sheet metal arranged approximately parallel, joined attheir adjacent ends as by spot welding indicated at 3, and a verticalrod or post 4, desirably of wire, inserted between the plates at theirmiddles and joined thereto as by spot welding indicated at 5. Theseplates have pairs of clips 6, 7 struck out from the plates and havingturned over mutually approaching end portions 8, 9, so that labelingsheets 10 may be slipped horizontally under said end portions and may bemarked with characters indicating the seeds or plants planted in a rowin which the device is located by thrusting its lower 5 end 11 into theground 12. Where such seeds or plants are of difierent kinds, the sheets10 facing such kinds respectively are correspondingly marked.

To prevent the rod or post 4 from turning in the 10 ground a thin fiatsheet 13 desirably of metal is fastened on the lower portion of said rodor post as by spot welding indicated at 14. This sheet hasupwardly-outwardly inclined lower edges 15, 16 on the opposite sides ofthe post respectively to facili- 15 tate the ready insertion of the postand sheet into the ground.

It will be seen that this device is of very stable construction byreason of the joining of the adjacent ends 17 of the plates 1, 2 and thejoining of 2 the post 4 to the inner sides of the plates in theirmiddles.

I claim:

A device of the class described comprising a pair of approximatelyparallel plates united at their 25 mutually adjacent lateral oppositeends, and a vertical post adapted to be thrust into the ground andunited to the inner sides of the plates intermediate said ends thereof,at least one of said plates having pairs of oppositely disposed clips 30struck out therefrom with mutually approaching end portions for holdinga labeling sheet on said plate.

FRED C. CHOATE.

